The Power of the Dog is a resoundingly queer movie. Photograph: Matt Baron/Rex/Shutterstockīut, really, it just sounds like Elliott simply hadn’t done his research. Towards the end of the WTF episode, he justifies his weird rant by pointing out that he had just been spending time in the American west, surrounded by families – “Not men, families” – suggesting that this is the true depiction of the cowboys that he’d like to see on screen.

Honestly, where to start? The primary takeaway, which has already been covered in several thousand headlines elsewhere, is that Elliott doesn’t seem to care for gay people very much.

“Well, what the fuck does this woman from down there – she’s a brilliant director – know about the American west, and why the fuck did she shoot this movie in New Zealand and call it Montana? That fucking rubbed me the wrong way.” “I think that’s what the movie’s about”, he suggests, not incorrectly. There were all these allusions to homosexuality throughout the fucking movie.”Īt this point, Maron steps in. And I thought ‘What the fuck? What the fuck?’ … What are all those dancers, those guys in New York that wear bowties and not much else? That’s what all these fucking cowboys in that movie looked like, running around in chaps and no shirts. “There was a fuckin’ full page ad out in the LA Times, and there was a clip, and it talked about the evisceration of the American myth. Maron laughs a stunned “Oh no”, and then Elliott proceeds to give the weirdest take on a film that may have ever been spoken aloud. “Yeah, you wanna talk about that piece of shit?” Elliott growls.

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